Research by the Canada Border Services Agency confirms what many have suspected, there are discrepancies in the way people from different countries are treated at our international airports
The results of a study, obtained by CBC through Access to Information requests, finds that border service officers send travellers from the Mid East, Africa and the Caribbean to secondary inspections at far higher rates than travellers from Europe or the U.S.
The CBSA report found, for example, a Jamaican visitor was ten times more likely then someone from Denmark to be sent for a secondary inspection.
The study also found border officers scrutinize returning Canadian travellers customs declarations more vigorously than that of a U.S. visitor.